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Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 27, No. 1 2017, a special issue titled 'Theatre, Performance and The Amateur Turn' guest edited by Nadine Holdsworth, Jane Milling and Helen Nicholson is now available on Taylor & Francis Online:

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gctr20/current

This special issue on amateur theatre and performance is accompanied by a set of online features, free to access, at www.contemporarytheatrereview.org, that give further insight into research methods on this subject. These include a collection of images and accompanying stories that came out of ‘Evocative Objects’ workshops held with amateur theatre-makers throughout the UK; a conversation between Nadine Holdsworth and eighty-one-year-old Arthur Aldrich, who has worked across professional and amateur contexts; an annotated slide show documenting amateur theatre in the Royal Navy compiled by Sarah Penny and Nadine Holdsworth; and Molly Flynn’s reflections on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages Initiative.

Introduction
Theatre, Performance and The Amateur Turn

The Sociable Aesthetics of Amateur Theatre

Erin Walcon and Helen Nicholson

pages: 18-33

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2016.1262851

Noh Creativity? The Role of Amateurs in Japanese Noh Theatre

Diego Pellecchia

pages: 34-45

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2016.1262848

‘The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music’: Musical Theatre at Girls’ Jewish Summer Camps in Maine, USA

Stacy Wolf

pages: 46-60

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2016.1262853

Amateur Science in Activist Performance: Towards a Slow Science

Simon Parry

pages: 61-75

 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2016.1262847

‘Village Hall work can never be “Theatre”’: Amateur Theatre and The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1945-1956

Taryn Storey

pages: 76-91

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2016.1262852

Performing Failure? Anomalous Amateurs in Jérôme Bel’s Disabled Theater and The Show Must Go On 2015

Sarah Gorman

pages: 92-103

Materialities of Amateur Theatre

Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice

(Second edition) edited. by Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton;

Critical Perspectives on Applied Theory edited by Jenny Hughes and

Helen Nicholson

Maggie Inchley

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2016.1268784 

Performing Contemporary Indonesia: Celebrating Identity, Constructing

Community ed. by Barbara Hatley

Matthew Isaac Cohen

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2016.1268785

The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: Through the Virtual,

Towards the Real ed. by Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan, and

Néill O’Dwyer

Rosie Klich

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2016.1268786

pages:134-148

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2017.1274147